I Cut Ties with My Family from the Start, Then Found a Strong Man to Be My Dad on the Famine Road

Her husband’s body was barely cold when his family seized the fields in the name of “unfilial conduct” and drove Shen Li and her twins out of the house, leaving her with nothing but a sack of moldy grain seeds.

Everyone in the village thought she was meek and easy to bully. Little did they know that while she wept prettily on the surface, she was already laying a trap to reclaim the land deed. She even found a brawny man with amnesia down in a ravine.

The man could hunt and farm, and he could chop wood and haul water well enough to do the work of three.

Shen Li loved free labor, but dreaded the day he regained his memory and demanded wages.

As it happened, her sweet-talking son called him “Dad” every day, while her fierce little daughter clung to his leg and guarded him like a treasure. “He’s ours! You can’t run away!”

From then on, the brawny man was squeezed dry by the mother and her two children, yet he willingly stood up for them.

Then one day, government officers suddenly entered the village and knelt to pay their respects to him. Only then did Shen Li realize that the bargain laborer she had picked up was actually the one person she could least afford to offend…